‘Death to Lightning’ Brings History’s Forgotten President to Life

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I was a big American history nerd in college, and before that, I was the history guy on our high school Quiz Bowl team (8th place at Nationals!). I could rattle off the Presidents in order from George Washington to Ulysses Grant without breaking a sweat, and from William McKinley to the present. But the stretch between Rutherford B. Hayes and Grover Cleveland’s second, non-consecutive term (like our current President) always tripped me up.

Of that already forgettable line of Presidents, James Garfield and Chester Arthur seemed the most inconsequential. Can anyone name anything that happened during those four years besides Garfield’s assassination by Charles Guiteau? I couldn’t. But the four

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